I have a question which I can't seem to answer after searching for an answer on google. I have a website hosted on a web host, but I want to introduce some real-time functionality on it, like a real-time notification system, or maybe a chat system.
As I understand the short-polling and long-polling methods of simulating a live feature are kinda obsolete. Today with the modern HTML5, we can use Websockets as I understand, or APE(Ajax Push Engine). The thing is that I don't understand, how do I use websocket or APE on the webhost if they require a server to which they connect in order to work ?
How can I run that server along with my website on the same host ? Or maybe I am missing something ?
Can you give me some information on this problem, that I can read?
Thank you.